Authors My Lunch With Leslie and Lesley By Neal on Jun. 28, 2007 - 10:53 AM When I first came up with the idea of inviting Leslie Schnur and Lesley Dormen out together, I just thought that the similar first names would make for a cute gimmick on which to hook an item, but the two authors ended up having m ...
Authors Touring the Met with Museum‘s Author By Neal on Jun. 28, 2007 - 10:25 AM When I told Danny Danzinger‘s publicist that I thought we should do our interview about Museum, his new book about the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at the Met, I confess that my reasons were entirely selfish: I just hadn̵ ...
Publishing In Europe, Autobiography Counts as Fiction By Carmen on Jun. 28, 2007 - 8:40 AM In Europe, Autobiography Counts as Fiction
Authors Anna David: Chick Lit Is Never a Compliment By Neal on Jun. 28, 2007 - 8:11 AM “I didn’t see what the big deal was about chick lit,” Anna David told me yesterday afternoon as we waited for our salads to arrive, recalling observations of the literary tussles other writers have had over that ...
Publishing Bloomsbury on the Acquisition Prowl By Carmen on Jun. 28, 2007 - 7:04 AM Bloomsbury on the Acquisition Prowl
Publishing Publishers Waiting for Change in Fopp Status By Carmen on Jun. 28, 2007 - 6:50 AM Publishers Waiting for Change in Fopp Status
Adaptation Fishburne to Write/Direct Alchemist Flick By Neal on Jun. 27, 2007 - 12:07 PM Variety broke the news yesterday afternoon: Laurence Fishburne is adapting The Alchemist, the Paulo Coelho “adventure novel” that has become 21st-century America’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull, for a big-screen Wa ...
Book Biz How Much Must Rumsfeld Show & Tell? By Neal on Jun. 27, 2007 - 11:08 AM The New York Sun has a story this morning on Donald Rumsfeld‘s informational tour of the New York publishing world, as the former secretary of defense has apparently shown a few houses something, which a former aide insists ...
Publishing Happy Ending’s Big Finale, Plus an Epilogue By Neal on Jun. 27, 2007 - 10:39 AM Before Amanda Stern (left) closes down the Happy Ending reading series for the summer, she’s got one more great lineup planned for this evening, with musical guests One Ring Zero joining readers Eliza Griswold, Jean Thompson ...